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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>My Q is, does the Gold Version make it easy enough for me to use the more
clever AIs, with their neat shipsets and texts (that I simply cannot get to
work in non-Gold)? Or would it be up to me to work it out as how to make it
work? Ideally, it would be a menu-based choice system in the game set-up. I
fear the playing around in the "My PC" section of Windows.<hr></blockquote>How do you feel about using WinZip?
Many modders have their mods packaged so that they are very easy to install, some even have self-installers.

And, as always, the forum members are more than happy to help; just post your questions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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Very true the folks on this forum are more than willing to help answer any questions about their mods.

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Like I said, though, I could not get the TDM to do it auto. I tried to follow the instructions as best I could, but the "path" stuff just would not work for me. Repeated attempts just had me spinning my wheels, and expending my few discretionary hours. The idea was for me to use my few free hours playing, not trying to get stuff to work in an area that I am not familiar.

I eventually had some success with "brute force" tactics. I copied some of the emp files into the folder where I could get them to show up in "Add Existing" for my games. That is all I could get to work.

It is kind of the Forum denizens to offer to help me, but it is more my own patience limits in appearing a fool as anything, I guess, as well as that I just do not get many hours to play.

If your company is using the Mods installed on the CD as a selling feature, why did not the company integrate them into the menu system? That seems most odd to me.

Nuts.

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Too those who wait, come good things.

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Jim, I would guess you don't have the latest patch (1.49) installed. If you have this patch, just download the TDM-ModPack and unzip it into the SE4 folder. If everything worked correctly, you will see a text "Using the TDM directory" on the top right corner of your screen once you launched SE4.
Gold includes a modpicker that will handle all this stuff for you once it is installed. So, there is your menu picker. Have fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Saxon:

I will check and get back with you.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Tim Brooks:
Saxon:

I will check and get back with you.<hr></blockquote>

Saxon, I am probably in the US next week, if I am and know where I am going to be, we could get the SEIV gold sent to my hotel cheap, I bring it back into England and then I will send it from England to the UK consulate in Nairobi via the gov mail - that will only cost the US shipping costs - can you get to the UK consulate in Nairobi

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Derek:

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>What it says to me, as a customer, is that if I want customer support, I am going to be penalized. You don't run a company that way. Well, apparently some do, neverthelss, I would hope that a company is not run that way.<hr></blockquote>

If you read the notice carefully it says it will have to be pulled from the queue to be accessed. We aren't doing this to punish anyone. It is the way the software works. Anytime we access an order we right information to that file so we can track what is happening with an order. When it gets saved back it gets saved at the end of the queue.

This keeps us from shipping an order that is in the process of being cancelled or from shipping to an address while at the same instance customer service is updating an address by request. Two people cannot access an order at the same instance. Normally this isn't a problem because the queue isn't over one days shipping long. However, right now, this is the result.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[ 06 March 2002: Message edited by: Tim Brooks ]</p>

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Tim,

What are the chances of getting an order to Growltigga’s hotel sometime next week? I know you guys are swamped right now.

Growltigga,

Thanks for the kind offer. Maybe I will reconsider pounding you senseless in the upcoming match and merely let Gryhin enjoy the fun.

More seriously, getting to the High Commission is not a problem. Worst case scenario, I can send a driver to pick it up, but for something this important, I am sure I can sneak out of work.

Also, if Tim discovers that it was just an error and I can order normally, I got the package in about two weeks Last time. If things work out that way again, I will get the game at about the same time either way and you will not need to gallivant about chasing a game for someone else.

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Hats off to Growltigga! Perhaphs the kindest offer I have ever heard in relation to a game!!!